Goalkeepers have a very important role in handball, especially in maintaining team morale. In coaching communities, it is well recognized that goalkeepers` performances can predict team ranking in major tournaments (Hansen at al.,2017). There are different systems for assessing players, goalkeepers and team`sperformance in handball. There is also the need of evaluating the performance of individual players during the game -this evaluation can contribute to a better determination of the tactic`sactivities of a team. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to analyse goalkeepers` save performance comparing three evaluation methods. The 28 goalkeepers from all 16 national teams of the 2018 men`s European Championships tournament were analysed using three methods(save percentage, saves/time and new method). A significant relationship was not identified between the goalkeepers ranking in these three methodsusing Friedman ANOVA test (p=0.29).
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